bids

The number of victory points required is determined at the start of the game, when each player bids a certain number of victory points for each country.The player that bids the most for a given country plays that country.As a result, although not all seven countries are of equal strength, the weaker countries have a competitive advantage if the players bid a sufficiently low number of victory points for them.…

It was located in an expensive and fashionable part of London, and did not fit their office requirements.Many people made bids to buy the building, two of whom were friends.Sir Terence Conran (the restaurateur and retailer) and Paul Hamlyn (owner of the Octopus Publishing Group) had unknowingly been bidding against each other.…

Singaporean bridge is by and large a social game with less formal (albeit interesting) rules.Players simply voice their bids, and talking during games is allowed in a general sense.There is no official point-scoring system since the partners are not fixed; that is to say too that the concept of over-tricks and doubling do not apply at all.…

If all four players pass in the first round, the deal is not played; in rubber bridge the deal is not scored and the turn to deal passes to the next player, while in duplicate the score is recorded as zero for each pair and returned to the board.The purpose of some early bids may be to exchange information rather than to set the final contract.…

The national committee then disperses 46 bids proportionally to each of the nine NDT Districts.Each district is free to decide how these bids will be awarded to teams within each district.Most, although not all, districts decide to hold a district tournament, where the top teams will receive a bid.…

The remainder of the 64 team field is awarded to at-large teams with the best records at the qualifying events.No school can earn more than eight bids to the national field.…

But all his letters were written by him; it is recorded that on one occasion after the rest of his party had gone to bed, 31 letters had been written by Brassey overnight.Although he won a large number of contracts, his bids were not always successful.It has been calculated that for every contract awarded, around six others had been unsuccessful.…

He was a Member of Parliament for over 40 years (from 1952 until his retirement in 1992) and is the last surviving member of the cabinet formed by Harold Wilson after the Labour Party's victory in the 1964 general election.A major figure in the party, he was twice defeated in bids for the party leadership.Healey became well known for his trademark bushy eyebrows and his creative turns of phrase.…

Bidding begins with the player seated clockwise next to the dealer.Each player, in turn, bids the number of tricks they believe they can win.Each bid must be a "pass" or a higher number of tricks than already bid.…

The sixty-four teams came from twenty-nine states, plus Washington, D.C. California had the most teams with six bids.Twenty-one states did not have any teams receiving bids.…

Also, bids may be made with signals instead of being called out.Such signals can include tugging an ear or raising a bidding paddle.…

The defenders are allowed to set the scale of the battle, and the attacking force will allow its various units to declare which forces it will use in the attack in a bidding process.The force actually deployed will be the unit commander who bids the least amount of forces.The Clans' adherence to Zellbrigen put them at a disadvantage when invading the Inner Sphere, whose warriors did not abide by such codes.…

Each player now bids for the number of tricks he believes he can win.The player to the left of the dealer bids first.…

The highest card of the lead suit wins the trick unless ruffed, when the highest trump card wins.Each player bids the amount of tricks he or she will win.If a player wins exactly that amount of tricks he/she will receive double the points as well as an additional 10 points for making a contract.…

McDonnell is proposing to set aside over 100 licenses for companies that employ less than 50 people in order to help small, family owned stores.He also wants to give small businesses several years to pay off their auction bids.The Post suggests that "he might call off plans for a November special session" of the General Assembly.…

Bids are made and accepted by a single player, but the scoring is made by the team.It is therefore possible to accept a bid you know you're going to lose, but your team mate will win.…

On the left he is kissing his queen, Froiluba, goodbye from atop his horse, with his hunting falcon on his arm.On the right he bids her farewell in the same manner in front of his palace.The final sculpture (not shown) depicts his fatal fight with the bear.…

Tim Stanfill of Central Washington was the tournament MVP, Derek Patrick of Miami was the tournament's leading try scorer, and Colton Caraiga of Life University was the tournament's leading points scorer.In the first three years, strong teams that won bids have declined to participate.Team rankings are in parenthesis, based on Goff Rugby Report rankings, current as of December 2014.…

Beginning with the player to dealer's left, each competitor may make one of the bids in the table below or pass.If someone bids, then subsequent players can either pass or bid higher.The bidding continues around the table as many times as necessary until the contract is settled.…

Bids can be freely combined as long as they make sense, as shown on the figure.The value of a combined bid is the sum of the individual components' values.…